Your govt wants to use the Internet to Lower Your Wages!

[cryofan]

Obligatory warning: the following excerpts are from a "right wing website":

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Worse, the Bush administration has just floated the idea of a new permanent wage depreciation policy for American workers, via an illegal alien-worker amnesty scheme purportedly to impress Hispanic voters.

This will be accomplished through a plan to essentially create a high-tech classifieds section on the Department of Labor Web site. According to administration officials, employers would post their jobs on this site, and any jobs not filled by Americans within a certain time frame would then be offered to immigrants – legal or otherwise.


But more important, however – as Pat Buchanan pointed out recently – is the probability employers will post jobs at far below current pay scales, just to be able to attract lower-wage earning immigrants and save themselves the higher rates of pay needed by American workers.

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Not all Americans are college material. Some simply have no choice but to find a low-skill or menial labor job in order to make a living. If all of those jobs are taken away, what will these American workers do?



Your government: putting cutting-edge technology to work to make America a Third World country....

more here:
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/2/25/161654.shtml

[camero]

1. I didn't think I was college material.

That's why I never went to college. But you're right about this. And it sickens me.

[strategery blunder]

2. It no longer matters if you are college material

in this country because your job will be outsourced to India anyway. Unless your last name is Bush. :evilgrin:

[izzie]

3. What is Kerry saying about this?

I swear I recall Clinton was going to do something about NAFTA and then he just signed it. I know he had trouble with Congress but I was sad about that. I felt Ross was right about the sucking sound thing.

[strategery blunder]

4. go to Kerry's website

<http://www.johnkerry.com/issues/economy/>

<http://www.johnkerry.com/issues/education/>

[camero]

5. I remember that

I even called a radio station about it at the time it was coming up for a vote. I pointed out the fact that we would be competing against child labor and that children should be allowed to be children and getting an education.

The idiot host just asked me if I was a kid. "No I wasn't a kid but shouldn't we think that the exploitation of children is just a bit sick?", was my reply. Needless to say I got hung up on. Last time of that for me.

[KharmaTrain]

6. Bottom Line Over All

Yep...another government non-answer to a problem it's attempting to cover-up. Yep, outsourcing is great for America...as long as you're in upper management or are looking for a cheap TV at Walmart. Other than that it's plain greed. This is especially the case since moving offshore also opens up all sorts of tax dodges for these corporations who can move the profits they make abroad to their Bahamian or Vanuatuu subsidiary and pay virtual no taxes.

Part of the game is to make the jobs so responsibility heavy and/or at such low pay as to immediately scare away qualified candidates...who also can create waves since they have brains...to, at first, minimum wage American workers and now, even that's not good enough...it's out the door altogether.

For 15 years I was in corporate "middle management"...hiring and firing my own staff and while the profits of my division rose year after year, I either had the same budget or less to work with. I was told to stay away from "skilled" (college graduates) for those with "promise"...being that the most sucessful in the company came up from the very bottom (I think it's the most controllable...if you could last that many years, you had to be a Zombie).

Ironically, the first person I heard address this issue was Chuck Harder...the radio host (I'm not sure if he's on the air anymore) who was Liberatarian/Conservative...over 10 years ago!

As I previously posted, this immigration/outsourcing issue are one in the same. It's the exploitation of natural resources and labor in the third world and now the importing of that labor into this country to do the jobs that can't be exported.